Wednesday, February 4, 2009

REFLECTION on MY first assignment, the Literacy Narrative

Let me see where should I begin. Oh i know exactly where; let me start with hem she first gave us the assignment. When Mrs. Weber first gave the Literacy Narrative assignment i was pumped because i knew exactly what i wanted to write about. When i actuallyread the requirements for the assignment i was then stumped. What i thought we would be doing was completely different for what she expected. I thought we would be telling a story, but she wanted us to tell how we related to literacy. I did not know how to make my relationship to reading and writing interesting. So for a whole day i just sat and thought about what i could come up with to say. Then I had my first idea! Start off by telling how my great-grandmother could not read, but as i got started with that idea it began to become weak more and more as i went on. That was a complete waste of time me sitting there thinking about how me talking about my grandmother would be interesting. I had dreaw a blank, i did not know where to end let alone begin, there i was stuck with nothing to write about.

Then I went back to look at the assignment sheet again and i came across this topic:"- a person who helped you become the learner, writer, reader you are today." That is when i realized that my granny is the perfect person for my story. my grandmother is part Indian and she did not graduate past the third grade. She barely knew how to read or write. her reading and writing skills were what we would call the "bases of writing". What are the "bases of writing" you might ask, well to my knowledge it is what you learn in first through the third grade; making sure your name is written straight and making sure you can spell the basic word. The little knowledge that my grandmother had was helpful to me but it did not benefit her at all.